Force removal of semi-existent Office Standard 2010 installation

Question

I had an Office Standard 2010 installation which did not fully un-install at the first attempt. It's still in the list of installed programs, but some of the files and registry records might already be gone.

When I try to uninstall it, I now get the following error:

The language of this installation package is not supported by your system

I have already tried the suggestion at the How to uninstall or remove Microsoft Office 2010 suites article at Microsoft Support.

How can I get rid of that nuisance? In order to install a 64-bit Version I have to uninstall this one first.

Solution 1

Use the "Fix It" for Office 2010 provided by Microsoft here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971179

It'll take a while to run and won't provide much feedback during the process, but it should (might) remove all remnants of Office 2010. Be sure to reboot afterwards.

You could also try manually removing it following the instructions here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301.

Solution 2

I know this is an old question but I didn't see an answer. I used Geek Uninstaller and it worked like a charm. Uninstalled everything left by Office 2010, rebooted and installed Office again without issues.

Comments

[wnrph]

Have already tried support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 as well

[wnrph]

Now I understand why not many such questions show up on superuser. Users just know what a mess this is and reinstall their whole system right away, which is what I am going to do next.

[skrblr]

Heh. Yeah, reinstalling is all you can do at this point. Good luck!

[Rafael]

Got to mention that with only 'uninstall' you get the same error, 'force uninstall..' on the other side worked like a charm. +1